CSTHW17396

CIMMYT's Latin America product pipeline Tropical Mid-altitude (LatAmTM) focuses on developing intermediate maturing, white and yellow  grain, high-yielding maize hybrids that are drought tolerant, resistant to GLS and ear rots, and are suitable for food and feed use in tropical rainfed dry/wet mid-altitude areas in Latin America.   General Information   Adaptation/Agroecological zone 1200 - 1800m above sea level   Type of product Three-way hybrid         Grain Characteristics       Grain color White Grain  yield   Grain texture Flint Grain yield on-farm 9.5 t/ha       Grain yield under drought stress 2.82 t/ha   Biotic Stress Performance Grain yield under heat stress 1.31 t/ha   Turcicum leaf blight (TLB) (1-9) 1.7       Grey leaf spot (GLS) (1-9) 2.2 Agronomic Characteristics   Maydis leaf blight (MLB) (1-9) 2.3 Plant height 262 cm   Rust (1-9) 2.1 Ear height 127 cm   Diseases are scored on 1-9 scale, where 1 = Highly resistant; 5 = Tolerant; 9 = Highly susceptible Bad husk cover 3.7%   Ear rot  5.6%       Root lodging 2.1%   Seed Production Characteristics Stalk lodging 5.2%   Female seed yield  7.3 t/ha Anther-silking interval 0.6 days   Male seed yield  1.8 t/ha       Nicking -3 days           Comments Product information is based on data from the Hybrids Testing Network, MasAgro Project, 41 sites On-Farm (2018) Trials.

Abbreviations:
DAP = days after planting
TLB = Turcicum leaf blight
GLS = Grey leaf spot
MLB = Maydis leaf blight